Neo-Nazi Postmodern
Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual New Right, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989
Esther Elizabeth Adaire
- 264 pages
- English
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Neo-Nazi Postmodern
Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual New Right, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989
Esther Elizabeth Adaire
Ă propos de ce livre
From the violent skinhead protests of the early 1990s to the National Socialist Underground murder spree of the 2000s and the KSK ( Kommando SpezialkrĂ€fte ) scandal of 2020, this book traces Germany's long struggle to suppress a resurgent and ever more terroristic far-right scene. Esther Elizabeth Adaire analyses the electoral success of the AfD ( Alternative fĂŒr Deutschland ) party in 2017, the growing presence of PEGIDA on German streets, and the anti-COVID lockdown protests led by conspiracy theorist groups such as Querdenken which have taken aback liberal onlookers for whom Germany's robust culture of Holocaust consciousness is supposed to provide a panacea against neo-Nazism. Adaire examines how, since unification, the intellectual Neue Rechte has increasingly destabilized the foundations of historical memory and lesson-learning in Germany, often doing so in the pages of mainstream conservative publications. Neo-Nazi Postmodern convincingly contends that far-right intellectuals â joined by notable left-wing apostates who brought with them an anti-establishment critique borrowed from the language of postmodernism â have since the early 1990s excused and justified an increasingly violent far-right youth scene, even becoming leaders of this scene themselves. The book therefore traces the development of today's German far-right throughout several stages, notable scandals, and the ongoing destabilization of memory and truth from unification onwards, showing how previously disparate groups such as neo-Nazis, Neue Rechte intellectuals, and political fringe parties merged over time. This far-right scene, Adaire adeptly demonstrates, has come to embody what the historian Walter Laqueur once dubbed 'Postmodern Terrorism': a mixture of cell-based terror structures, reliance on Internet technologies for organizational purposes, and the sowing of epistemic chaos via informational warfare.